The rule that I set for myself demanded that the only search term I could use was the word for that day, even for the text used in the image. This led to some later amendments for words that resulted in unusable images or no images at all, especially for the text ("grandiloquent" was one that I had to break up by syllable to find images of text). My searches also sometimes led to some unforeseeable ickiness: I don't remember the word, but my first search netted nothing but photos of open surgical wounds. Delightful.

I didn't miss a day for over two years, and at the beginning of the third, I decided to start creating my own images.

This change resulted in some interesting typography designs, a lot of them resembling Art Deco, of which I'm very fond. They were also often shockingly literal, which was and still is disappointing. But every now and then my imagination would fire in an unexpected way, as it did when the Word of the Day was "engender."

I'd forgotten about this illustration. I giggled a little when I saw it again after all this time.

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I was born in the 20th Century.
I work for a national retailer as a social media customer service expert and online community manager. When I'm not doing that, I'm a fine artist, graphic designer, writer, poet, and proud parent of a future bestselling author. I've been to Stonehenge, Tenerife and two different Austins. Whenever I go for a haircut I ask the stylist to make me younger, thinner, taller, and richer.